• What location did you visit for your visual research and what did you find?  
    • The location I picked was the streets near Washington Square.
  • How did the locations (museum/gallery/etc.) you visited expand/broaden/deepen your understanding of your topic? (this could be visual, contextual, historical, material based, etc.) 
    • I picked one of the six “historical case studies” presented in the Whitney exhibition An incomplete History of Protest, which is the Strike, Boycott, Advocate section. I found the artwork Black Mass by Annette Lemieux and few other artworks to explore my research of Lower Class. 
    • This artwork shows the darkness of politic and the madness of lower class.

The Newspaper repots directly shows the different diseases that workers get from different fields of work.

  • I chose this artwork because i think the texture of this art piece, which is old jean, could completely represent lower class people.
  • List the symbols, metaphors and visual references you put in your taxonomy and explain how/why they are relevant/important to your topic.  
    • The keywords that related to my topic are “Money”, “ladder”,”Abandoned”, “Unemployment”, “Pizza” and “Texture”. These words are important to my topic because when I walked on the streets, I saw some objects that I never would think about to represent lower class. These words could come out as a great mind map if I put them on the paper.
  • What did you learn from Monday’s critique about your taxonomy that was new or helpful?
    • After I talk to my instructor Bryan, I found out I probably should switch my focusing point more towards to Victorian Wallpaper instead of Unemployment because I could do more interesting researches on pattern and texture since I am a fashion student.